Retreiving data from MySQL with html/javaScript on one domain and the PHP file on the other

Question

I need to retrieve data from a MySQL database, and have it work one way for all types of servers. For example it should work on a server that runs no server side language, it should also work on LAMP, and IIS.

I was thinking about using ajax and xmlhttprequest, but learned of the cross domain limitation. I also tried to just include the PHP in a tag, but it comes back with a syntax error in the HTML code created by the PHP file, even though it looks correct.

Does anyone know how to fix either of these issues, or have a different way to go about it?

Answer 1

If you use the cross-domain ajax, the result should be straight JavaScript code, and should not contain any HTML whatsoever. This page has a description of the technique for cross-domain ajax.

See Also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2616985/how-to-access-different-domain-data-using-java-script